Epidemiology

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Victorian era, England’s class distinctions and prejudices have affected the people’s understanding of the “bad science” behind the cholera through “Miasma Theory”, which lead them to make changes in the cities, society, and people’s belief through epidemiology. The Ghost Map is a wonderful illustration of how science and public policy interplay. The uncertainty of the disease could be discovered through predictable patterns that made the polluting actions detectable for the invisible…

Adrenal insufficiency so called Addison Disease is an endocrine condition defined as the inadequate production or action of glucocorticoids, principally a steroid hormone called cortisol. The adrenal insufficiency is a rare condition in childhood, but it carries the risk of adrenal crisis in the event of a child becoming unwell as a result of intercurrent illness, injury or surgery. Pathophysiology The adrenal glands have many functions contributing to homeostasis in the body. This is one of the…

Ebola: a word that for many triggers a somewhat distant memory back to 2014 when the whole world was up in arms about it spreading and becoming a pandemic. This incident of outbreak in West Africa shows how far we have come as a world, technologically and medically, but also how far we still have to go. The severity of the outbreak was completely avoidable, however due to the disregard of certain factors not usually associated with disease, such as cultural practices, it became an epidemic. In…

Columbus’ health department is called Columbus Public Health, and it is located at 240 Parsons Ave, Columbus, Ohio, 43215. Individuals can contact the department by phone at (614) 645-7417. Columbus Public Health’s mission is to protect public health and improve lives in the community. Columbus Public Health has been helping people in the Columbus area live healthier, safer while promoting social justice and serving the underserved. The first records show that in 1833 the mayor appointed…

dialectical-perspective-based approach to scientific inquiry and interpretation. Here we first summarize what is more rigorously referred to as the dialectical materialist (DM) perspective (Clark & York, 2005), then illustrate how science and social epidemiology (SE) fits within the framework developed therein. Next, we compare our own application of the dialectic framework to SE to the approach laid out in the authors’ own discussion on SE in Chapter 12, Research Needs for Latin Community…

Introduction The aim of the study was to examine the extent to which coronary heart disease is managed as a public health issue, and its transitioning epidemiology, over the past century. Coronary Heart Disease (CHD) is the obstruction of blood vessels, which pump blood around the human body (World Health Organization, 2015). Figure 1 illustrated a variety of modifiable and non-modifiable risk factors, increasing the prevalence of coronary heart disease, include: Figure 1: The Risk factors for…

Heart disease is a major health issue in the United States. It effects all genders, races, and ethnicities. The heart disease epidemic peaked in the mid-1960s. CHD rose from the late 19th century and hit hard in the 20th century. By 1960, it killed one third of Americans. In 1978, it was discovered that there was a 20% decline in heart disease between 1968 and 1978. Many methods since the rise of CHD were used to study CHD and what caused the decline in mortality. Two programs were created,…

department is important in needs-based planning because it aids in forecasting various important decisions. By incorporating the human resources planning process which consists of profiling, estimating, inventorying, forecasting, and planning, with epidemiology we can more successfully estimate needs. It can help in determining the amount of services or resources that are needed in a population. With knowing what services are needed, this can help to figure out how many physicians may be needed…

The epidemiology initiative, Children’s Healthy Living program, spans twelve jurisdictions. In the Nutrition Support Shared Resource at the University of Hawai’i Cancer Center, I conduct nutrition assessment on indigenous children ages two through eight afflicted…